We live in a world where there are countless interactions with computer systems in every-
day situations. In the most ideal case, this interaction feels as familiar and as natural as the …

This paper provides a survey of the current state of ARTIC–the modern Czech concatenative
corpus-based text-to-speech system. Through more than a decade of research & …

Automatic speech recognition by machine is an attractive research topic in signal processing
domain and has attracted many researchers to contribute in this area. In recent year, there …

In recent years there has been a substantial debate about the need for increasingly
spontaneous, conversational corpora of spoken interaction that are not controlled or task …

This paper takes stock of the current state-of-the-art in multimodal corpus linguistics, and
proposes some projections of future developments in this field. It provides a critical overview …

Natural speech is processed in the brain as a mixture of auditory and visual features. An
example of the importance of visual speech is the McGurk effect and related perceptual …

Sign languages are known as a natural means for verbal communication of the deaf and
hard of hearing people. There is no universal sign language, and almost each country has …

Current methodologies in corpus linguistics have revolutionized the way we look at
language. They allow us to make objective observations about written and spoken …

This paper describes SynFace, a supportive technology that aims at enhancing audio-based
spoken communication in adverse acoustic conditions by providing the missing visual …

A multimodal interactive dialogue automaton (kiosk) for self-service is presented in the
paper. Multimodal user interface allow people to interact with the kiosk by natural speech …